Excerpts from Your Child on Oppositional Defiant Disorders
All children are oppositional from time to time. There are also times in normal development when oppositional behavior is expected. This is especially true when the thrust towards separation is most intense, around the ages of two and three, and again in early adolescence.
However, openly uncooperative and hostile behavior becomes a serious concern when it is so incessant and fierce that it stands out when compared with other children’s behavior and when it affects the child's social, family, and academic life.
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Excerpts from Your Adolescent on Oppositional Defiant Disorders
At times, all teenagers are oppositional, argumentative, and inattentive. Absorbed in their own thoughts and concerns and more interested in their peer group, teenagers frequently turn a deaf ear to the adult world. Even when the demands are reasonable, a teenager may respond with belligerence or passivity. Because the thrust toward separation is especially intense, adolescence is a time when oppositional behavior is sometimes expected.
Disrespectful, defiant, and hostile behavior, however, must be carefully examined in a teenager when it begins to affect the youngster’s social, family, and academic life or seems extreme compared to the teen’s peers.
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